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the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think -- kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. >> i suspect that when they come back...

To lock this stuff up, and he didn't do it. he didn't close the deal, and he was humiliated yesterday. >> mccarthy is ideologically agnostic, host flexible. his real constituency is the lobbying community in washington. that is infuriating to watch. howard: things got pretty heated as leaders of the never kevin movement such as colorado's lauren boebert would not budge. >> kevin mccarthy does not have 218 votes -- >> and you have 20. i asked you a very specific question. if by friday -- >> listen, when we get this -- i will not, sean, i will not withdraw. >> you will not. howard: but in the en...